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Table 2 Means and standard errors of measured peak systolic velocity (PSV), end diastolic velocity (EDV) and resistance index (RI) of the external ophthalmic artery of rabbits treated with 10 mg of sildenafil citrate (sildenafil) and untreated rabbits (control) in 30 days

From: Ocular perfusion pressure and color Doppler imaging of the external ophthalmic artery of rabbits treated with sildenafil citrate

Moments

Treatment

P* Values

Sildenafil

Control

P* (T)

P** (M)

P*** (I)

PSV

 M1

28.92 (1,79)Aa

28.62 (2,06)Aa

   

 M2

32.06 (1,79)Aa

26.55 (1,79)Aa

   

 M3

29.49 (1,79)Aa

26.30 (2,05)Aa

0.265

0.126

0.364

 M4

29.26 (1,90)Aa

28.85 (1,79)Aa

   

 M5

26.19 (1,79)Aa

25.30 (1,79)Aa

   

EDV

 M1

14.64 (1.25)Aa

16.54 (1.44)Aa

   

 M2

17.37 (1.25)Aa

14.05 (1.25)Aa

   

 M3

15.19 (1.25)Aa

14.47 (1.43)Aa

0.691

0.177

0.18

 M4

15.94 (1.33)Aa

15.53 (1.25)Aa

   

 M5

13.53 (1.25)Aa

13.56 (1.25)Aa

   

RI

 M1

0.48 (0.01)Aa

0.47 (0.02)Aa

   

 M2

0.46 (0.01)Aa

0.46 (0.01)Aa

   

 M3

0.49 (0.01)Aa

0.44 (0.02)Aa

0.379

0.811

0.54

 M4

0.45 (0.02)Aa

0.46 (0.01)Aa

   

 M5

0.48 (0.01)Aa

0.46 (0.01)Aa

   
  1. M = moment. M1 = day one, M2 = day seven, M3 = day fourteen, M4 = day twenty-one, M5 = day thirty
  2. Treatment P * (T), P ** Moment (M) P *** Interaction (I)
  3. Tukey test at a 5 % level of significance. The same letters correspond to the same means, with upper case letters representing moments within the same treatment and lower case ones to moments of different treatments. Values in brackets show standard errors of the means